He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us. — Tom Bailey Copy Share Image
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the… — Todd Crawshaw Copy Share Image
A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development. — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It's said that there's three sides to a story: yours, mine, and the truth. Check out God in Wingtip Shoes and The… — Yvonne J. Medley Copy Share Image
“I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction.” — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one.… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“Everyone thought she was so confident and together, but that was really a mask she wore to protect herself. The old adage… — Hope Worthington Copy Share Image
Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings — Anonymous Copy Share Image
